The two behemoths had not faced each other since 1962. But thanks to Adam Wingard, Godzilla VS Kong marks a new fight between the radioactive lizard and the giant gorilla. Fourth film of the monsterverse after Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the monsters, the feature film brings together a cast including Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown, Alexander Skarsgard and Rebecca Hall. The film is available today on VOD.
Godzilla vs Kong: Battle of the Titans
Unsurprisingly, Godzilla vs Kong is an explosive blockbuster, but also dripping, that doesn't really do lace. Adam Wingard has the heavy task of confronting these two sacred monsters of the history of cinema in a crossover that must seduce everyone for the future of the monsterverse. And the latter temporizes, preferring to play the card of security, as Godzilla vs Kong takes marked paths. The filmmaker takes up the clichés of monster films that he applies academically in his blockbuster. Not surprisingly, Godzilla vs Kong is a formatted entertainment, which offers nothing new. 
Adam Wingard focuses more on his human characters than on his two emblematic figures of the seventh art. It sets up caricatured human protagonists, and ticks all the boxes: the broken scientist, the utopian, the evil entrepreneur, and the conspiracy theorist. And in the middle of it all, Millie Bobby Brown even more unsympathetic than in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Fights finally quite rare
The only surprise of Godzilla vs Kong lies in the expression of the fights. Indeed, Adam Wingard prefers to keep a certain distance from his two titans. Against all odds, the director easily manages to avoid the usual asphyxiation of this kind of production. He dodges the suffocating final climax, oozing explosions bordering on syncope. Unexpectedly, Adam Wingard offers his audience only two confrontations between Godzilla and King Kong. The two giants only cross paths twice, the time of stylized and still quite impressive fights. Through this avarice of confrontations, the director allows to preserve the taste and to play with the expectations of the spectators. Instead of multiplying the fights between these two forces of nature, he cleverly plays with the frustration of his audience. In this way, there is no need to add up the rounds. 
But hey, overall Godzilla vs Kong is a pretty basic movie, whose scenario is based on a postage stamp. The story is of a hallucinating emptiness and is only a weak pretext to justify the meeting between the two monsters. As for the human characters, they only serve as fillers, to furnish the moments when the two behemoths are absent from the screen. Godzilla vs Kong is released today on VOD in France. In the United States, the film has already grossed more than $310 million at the box office. https://youtu.be/odM92ap8_c0
